ESNs with one dimensional topography

  • Authors:
  • N. Michael Mayer;Matthew Browne;Horng Jason Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Nat’l Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan;Nat’l Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan;Nat’l Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Neural information processing: models and applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper the standard Echo State approach is combined with a topography, i.e. it is assigned with a position which implies certain constraints of the mutual connectivity between these neurons. The overall design of the network allows certain neurons to process new information earlier than others. As a consequence the connectivity of the trained output layer can be analyzed; conclusions can be drawn regarding which reservoir depth is sufficient to process the given task. In particular we look at connection strengths of different locations of the reservoir as a function of the test error which can be influenced by using ridge regression.